
millennium



mil‧len‧ni‧um /mɪˈleniəm/ noun (plural millennia /-niə/) [countable]
Irregular Forms: (pl) millennia
هزار سال، هزارمین سال، هزاره
mil‧len‧ni‧um /mɪˈleniəm/
noun (
plural millennia /-niə/)
[countable][
Date: 1600-1700;
Language: Modern Latin;
Origin: Latin mille 'thousand' + annus 'year']
1. a period of 1,000 years:
people who have inhabited this land for millennia2. [usually singular] the time when a new 1,000-year period begins:
the beginning of a new millennium
events which took place at the turn of the last millennium—millennial adjective [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲